Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?

Subject: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:04 AM

Wolfgang -

Would I be safe to post that Jesus was born on 25th December?

For I think that he must have been a folkie - what with the beard, sandals, the wine drinking and all those thousands of hungry people camped-out on hillsides?

I reckon he played a mean banjo too.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:14 AM

No. I heard he was a Delta bluesman. Played a mean slide guitar.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Tinker
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:20 AM

Rick Fielding has a great song where Jesus is a Country Bluegrass Singer.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: freda underhill
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:35 AM

Jesus was in fact a bit of a lefty. How else could you describe someone who said and did the following;

(Matthew 1923-26; Mark 1023-27; Luke 1824-27).

"Again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

(Luke 16:13).

"You cannot serve God and wealth"

(Matthew 6:19-20)

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasurer is, there your heart will be also."

(Mark 10:21)

When the rich man asked Jesus how he could get into heaven, Jesus replied "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST, ...
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:35 AM

Folkies - wine drinking?
Well, yes, but mainly the ones who do French and Swedish dances.
The hardcore folkies drink BEER.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 09:49 AM

LOL! Born on 25 Dec? Probably not...there were lambs and shepherds....makes it more like Lammas in Feb.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST,huw
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:12 AM

I think it was Judy Sill who sang "Jesus Was A Crossmaker". Now there was a singer songwriter of flawed genius.
Huw

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:25 AM

He was definately a lefty but no male folky would be seen dead in a long dress instead of levis.

eric

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: The Shambles
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:41 AM

http://www.totalmusicmagazine.com/albumreviews/P-T%20Covers/Richard_Thompson.jpg

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 11:23 AM

"Born on December 25"?

No, and no responsible authority says he was. It's uncertain. The Good Book gives no clear timing.

The December 25th date came later, when church authorities more or less coopted the solstice celebrations which appeared in a number of "adversary religions", such as Saturnalia. Just as they placed what we call Halloween and Easter on or around established holidays of cultures where Christianity was trying to make inroads.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: jeffp
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 11:32 AM

Elizabeth wasn't born on the Queen's Birthday either, was she?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Ernest
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:08 PM

Banjo? Slide guitar? No.

Jesus played cross harp.

Halleluja
Ernest

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:18 PM

Of course Jesus was a folkie? Ya think the music he and his buds made or listened to was written as sheet music or released on CD?   

They prolly did a lot of a cappella singing. ;-D

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:46 PM

Banjo? Harp? Maybe, but thunder is the JC on the Hran.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Ernest
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:57 PM

Definitely cross harp, gnu. Believe me - "we" are pope (as a famous newspaper put it) and so we are unfallible ;0)

But I admit your theory has at least something speaking for it: think of all the goats that are sacrificed in the bible.

On second thought: they might called a bodhran a goat after the animal which provided the skin and so in reality have sacrificed bodhrans.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Genie
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:03 PM

Maybe JC played the bongos.

I mean the antelopes themselves.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: gnu
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:09 PM

Ouch.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Ernest
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:09 PM

On third thought: the newspaper I referred to in my last post (and chorus) can also be described as infamous.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 03:34 PM

We apes figure Jesus was a pretty nice guy, and all that. He had a lotta good ideas. Still, he was human. Accordingly, he don't rank all that high in our estimation. Not like King Kong, for example, who will always be "the King", and who died tragically in order to make it crystal clear to all that human beings are the main problem on this planet!

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Common Tater
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 03:54 PM

According to one of John Stewart's (the banjo player) lyrics:

"Jesus hung with the harlots
and walked with the hoodlum side ...."

"Jesus ran with the hard-line gang
Jesus knew the songs they sang...."

(From "Jesus Is A Friends of Mine"

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 03:57 PM

I thought he was a boogie man.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 04:06 PM

Then you must be very easily frightened. ;-)

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 04:08 PM

True, true. LOL

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 04:27 PM

Can I as a non Christian, and not as a dig at Shambles, say that I think this thread is in poor taste?
Giok

Sits back and waits for the flak.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 05:32 PM

Sure you can say it, Giok.

Jesus was a protester, a reformer, and of sometimes unreliable temper. He was known to have a go when he was riled, so didn't totally rely on peace and love. So he was hardly a Traddie either, He supped wine.
It's in the Bible.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 05:54 PM

All right I modify that post, MOST of it is in bad taste. To some people this is a very important and special time of year, and I feel that they are being dissed somewhat.
Giok

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Peace
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:07 PM

This thread is no more disrespectful than the "Jesus Christ`s birthday (Dec. 24th)" thread became. Of course, Shambles didn't start THAT thread, did he?

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 06:46 PM

Heh! If only people were as objective and unbiased as they like to imagine themselves to be...

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:01 PM

Of course he was, just ask Kris Krisofferson:



Jesus was a Capricorn
He ate organic food
He believed in love and peace
And never wore no shoes

Long hair, beard and sandles
And a funky bunch of friends
Reckon we'd just nail him up
If he came down again

Chorus:
'Cause everybody's gotta have somebody to look down on
Prove they can be better than at any time they choose
Someone doin' somethin' dirty decent folks can frown on
If you can't find nobody else, then help yourself to me

Eggheads fussin' rednecks cussin'
Hippies for their hair
Others laugh at straights who laugh at
Freaks who laugh at squares

Some folks hate the Whites
Who hate the Blacks who hate the Klan
Most of us hate anything that
We don't understand

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: *Laura*
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:26 PM

I thought Jesus was born in September

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:37 PM

Yes - folkie and Morris Dancer - he was also wiccan - but the Vatican is suppressing their part in the the situation.

http://www.prince.org/msg/105/212076?jump=7&pg=1

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 08:58 PM

Spoken like someone for whom the solstice was just too much. Put the bottle down and crawl away from the computer.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: number 6
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:31 PM

I thought he was Scottish and tone deaf.

biLL

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 03:31 AM

That's the other Big Yin.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 04:40 AM

Gee thanks for all the support and understanding there guys¦¬]
G.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: GUEST,GS
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 09:15 AM

And Jesus was a sailor, when He walked upon the water,
And He spent a long time watching, from His lonely wooden tower.
And when He knew for certain, only drowning men could see Him,
He said all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them.
But He Himself was broken, long before the sky would open,
Forsaken, almost human, He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.

Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)

I say Jesus was very 'down to earth'

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 12:40 PM

Jesus was a Capricorn, he ate organic foods.
He believed in love and peace and never wore no shoes.
Long hair, beard and sandals and a funky bunch of friends.
Reckon they'd just nail him up if He come down again.

       ~ Kris Kristofferson

Subject: RE: Folklore: Was Jesus a folkie?
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 12:40 PM

oh.